88 BOMBACEiE. 



differs by a large, 5-partite stigma. Carolinea princeps, L. fiL—CiAyx 12"'-14"' l™g. 14" 

 broad at tbe top; petals greenisli-wliite, 8" long, 6"'-8"' broad; sexual organs 7' long, 

 yellowish-purple.— Hae. S. Lucia!; Anders. j [Guadeloupe!; Panama 1, New Granada,!, 

 Surinam I, Brazil!]. ,. 



F. imignis, Sav. {Carolinea, Sw. cum cit. Cav. Diss. t. 154, Bomhax grandiflorum, 

 Cav.), obserted in Tobago and Martinique, is distinguished (according to Swartz) by the 

 leaflets usually 7, the flowers red, and* the capsule more rounded: of this I have only seen a 

 leaf in the British Museum, the leaflets of which are obovate-oblong and much larger than 

 in P. aquatica (li'-l' long, and l'-4" broad). 



Adansonia digitata, L. (Tuss.' M. 3. t. 3S, 34; Desc. H. 4. t. 391), is only a cultivated 

 tree in the West Indies : this genua approaches FacUra, but is distinguished by an indehis- 

 cent capsule, filled with a farinaceous pulp. 



2. EKIODENDEON, DC. 



Calyx shortly B-lobed. Column divided into 5 filaments, ea,ch bearing at the top 2-3 

 unilocular anthers. Capsule S-loeular, loculicidal : seeds many, enveloped in wool.— Trees ; 

 leaves palmate ; flowers axillary ; petals tomentose externally. 



2. E. anfractuosum, DC. Leaflets 5-7, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate; petals obo- 

 vate, rose-coloured, glabrous internally ; filaments subulate above : anthers anfractuose. — 

 Oav. Diss. t. 151 ; Jacq. Amer. Fici. t. 182 : a form with the leaflets subsessile and serrate 

 above. — Bombax pentandrum, Cav.; B. Ceiba, Iain, (non L). — A very high tree: stem 

 armed with spines when young, sometimes ventrioose ; leaflets variable in breadth, petiolu- 

 late or subsessile, either quite entire or serrate ; flower-fascicles peduncled ; calyx 6"'-8"' 

 long ; petals spreading from the middle, equalling the sexual organs, 20'" long ; stigma en- 

 larged, subcapitate. — Hab. Jamaica!, Dist., Al., everywhere, but chiefly scattered over 

 the hill paatui-es on the north side of the mountain chain, and one of the most characteristic 

 arboreous features of the island (Cotton-tree); S. Lucia!, Anders., S. Vincent 1, Guild.; 

 [Cuba to Guiana!, and equatorial Brazil I]. 



3. OCHROMA, Sw. 



Calyx shortly 5-lobed, surrounded by a caducous, 8-leaved involucel ; calyx-lobes unequal, 

 2 pointed, imbricate at the base, 3 rounded, iuduplieative. Column tubulose : upper part 

 covered on the outside with adnate, contiguous, spiral, linear, unilocular anthers, 5-10-fid 

 at the top. Stiffmas exserted, 5, linear, and spirally contorted into a cylindrical body. 

 Capsule 5-locular, loculicidal ; seeds many, enveloped in wool. — Trees ; leaves simple, cordate, 

 angular or absolutely 5-T-loied, subentire or toothed; flowers terminal, large ; petals pu- 



3. O. Iia§;opus, Sw. Leaves pubernlous beneath ; petals pale-rufesoent or yellowish- 

 white. — Oav. Diss. 1. 153. — Bomhax pyramidale, Cav. — A tree, 20'-40' high; calyx velvety, 

 r\ 3" long ; petals 5"-6" long, somewhat exceeding the column, exceeded by the stigmas : 

 limb obovate, wavy : claws oblong-linear, equalling the calyx ; capsule 1" long : wool pale- 

 rufescent. — Hab. Jamaica!, Pd., Wils., common in damp situations, in the lower hills; 

 S. Vincent I: Guild. ; Trinidad, !: ^eb. 2V. 95 ; [Cuba !, Guadeloupe !, Mexico, Venezuela I]. 



4. MYKODIA, L. 



Calyx 5-toothed or operculate. Column filiform, obsoletely 5-toothed at the top : anthers 

 10-15, sessile on its outside, bilocular with the ovoid cells united at their ends. Ovary 

 3(-3)-locular : cells biovulate. Stigma subcapitate. Feriearp woody-leathery, indehiscent, 

 usually unilocular and monospermous by abortion : seed large, glabrous, exalbuminoas. — 

 Trees or shrubs ; leaves simple, elliptical or oblong, glabrous ; peduncles lateral or axillary ; 

 petals small, pubescent externally. 



4. M. turbinata, Sw. Leaves elliptical, quite entire; peduncles 1-flowered, nearly as 



long as the petiole; calyx ovoid, at length turbinate,. weyato/y circumscissile : remaining 



A tube split into several unequal lobes; column enlarged at the antheriferous top ; anthers 15. , 



''^ —Sw. PI. t. 22 : analyt.—k tree, 30'-50' high; petals spathulate, whitish, 6'" long, twice 



the length of the remaining calyx-tube, nearly equalling the sexual organs. — Hab. S. Kitts 



to S. Lucia!, Anders., in damp woods [Mexico, Guiana!, Brazil!]. 



